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Shawn Peters seized a once in a lifetime opportunity to confront rock legend David Byrne with puzzling evidence that his memory of life during wartime had stopped making sense.

Two people were killed Sunday afternoon in a one-vehicle crash in Columbia County, the vehicle leaving the highway and crashing into a tree.

New antibiotics are needed, while doctors prescribe less

Leaders say moving to a new stable will allow the group to put a greater focus on education and riding.

Before Peter Streicher of Madison killed himself with a gun in November 2013, it seemed like therapy and medications were keeping his depression in check.

For patients contemplating suicide, UnityPoint Health-Meriter has started taking four steps.

The conga line was no longer a line, but rather a fluid knot of nearly a thousand happy children winding in and around itself throughout the aisles of the auditorium while Cyril Paul and the Calypso Monarchs played from the…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting 10 to 16 named storms this season.

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite hit the Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Jim Dunn of Oregon is this week’s You Toon winner.

SPRING GREEN, Wis. (AP) — Clete Ring can tell most of his story with relative calm.

Scholarships: The Thomas B. Jones and Grace Stevenson Jones Charitable Foundation awarded $74,700 in scholarships to several students in southwestern Wisconsin. Recipients from Grant County include: Casey Hines-Munson, Chantel Raimer, Montfort; Anna Johnson, Brandin Walz, Boscobel; Andrea Patterson, Bloomington; Meghan…

Matt Lennon hit a walk-off three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give host Reedsburg a 5-2 victory over Black Earth in a Home Talent League Northern Section baseball game Sunday afternoon.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Lucas Halstead already had three hits by the time the Madison Mallards catcher came to the plate with one out in the ninth inning and the go-ahead run on third base Sunday against the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.

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The sophomore with a 275-yard drive will make his WIAA Division 1 state tournament debut Monday.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — The University of Wisconsin women’s lightweight four boat won the national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s national championships on Sunday at Lake Mercer.

Brewers starter Wily Peralta allows five earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.

UW-Madison students and three area mosques on Sunday held the county's first graduation for Muslim students living in the Madison area.

John Roach was 6 when his father, also named John, came home from his job at Badger Sporting Goods on State Street raving about a 17-year-old African-American boxer from Louisville, Kentucky, who had visited the store that day.